Neck-yoke ring



M. J. OURTISS. Neck Yoke Ring.

No. 231,154. Patented Aug. 17,1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MANLY J. OUR/PISS, OF CAMDEN, MICHIGAN.

NECK-YOKE RING.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 231,154, dated August 17, 1880.

I Application filed June 24, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MANLY J. GURTIss, of Camden, in the county of Hillsdale and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Neck-Yoke Rings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a new and improved manner of attaching the ring proper, or part through which the pole of the buggy or other vehicle is inserted; and it consists in the particular construction and arrangement of the parts forming the device.

In the drawings the different parts are represented as follows:

A (see Figure 1) represents the part through which the pole is inserted, and is made in the usual manner, by fastening two or more thicknesses of leather firmly together.

B represents a toothed plate, the teeth projecting at right angles to the surface of the plate, and is made of iron or other metal, and is beveled to an edge all round on the side the teeth are on.

The letters mm m represent two or more holes, through which bolts, screws, or rivets are made to pass, by means of which the parts A and B are fastened to the other parts. 7

The letters a 12 represent two holes, through which two of the plates B, on opposite sides of the part A, may be riveted together, if necessary, to secure greater strength.

0 (see Fig. 2) represents a band, made of iron or other metal, plated or otherwise, finely finished, and open in the center, leaving the leather band D in plain sight, and not covering the same, thus making a much better finish. This band 0, being made of solid iron or other metal and open in the center, allows a much greater twist, as either end of the neck-yoke is carried forward, without breaking at the holes, or twisting off, which is one of the greatest objections to a sheet-metal band coi ering the whole of leather D. This band 0 is furnished with holes to correspond with the holes on m m in the plate B, and is bent in the shape shown in Fig. 2.

The manner of making up the article (see Fig. 3) is as follows: The part A is made of the shape and thickness desired, as heretofore described, with the hole for the insertion of the pole. One of the plates B is then placed on each side of the part A, and the teeth of the plate B firmly pressed into the part A. The plates B being beveled, as before described, they are pressed in even with the surface of the part A, by which means the part A is no thicker after they are placed there than before. (See Fig.1.) A piece of leather or other material, D, is then placed around the neck-yoke, filling the groove in the same. The band C is then placed outside the leather D by slipping it over the end of the neckyoke, and firmly fastened by means of two or more bolts, screws, or rivets, which pass through the band C; then through the leather last described; then through the part A, as protected by the plates B, attached as described; then through the other end of the leatherD and band 0, terminatingin a thread cut in the band 0, or in a burr or nut outside the band, or by riveting on the band 0, as desired.

What I claim is as follows:

The plates B, by means of which the strain is taken from the holes in the part A and evenly distributed over the whole of the part A, in combination with the open band C, outside of the leather D, which goes around the neck-yoke, all substantially as described.

MANLY J. CURTISS.

In presence of- J. B. ALWARD, FRANK MATHIAS. 

